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duckysauce wrote: »just watched it once you cut through the cheese its very good
, Tom Hardy is excellent as usual
he's built like a brick sh1thouse in it isnt it, bodes well for him playing Bane.0 -
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hungoverbunny wrote: »i read somewhere he's gonna be bigger again in batman...
if this is anything to go by:
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Fishooks12 wrote: »Fast Five
I realise action films take some liberty when it comes to reality but the this really takes the piss. The first ten minutes alone break nearly every law of physics and common sense.
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Knowing (2009) - RTE last night - on in the background last night as it starred Nicholas Cage. Daft plot, utterly depressing and two hours of my life that I won't see again although, as I said, I only had it on in the background.
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I watched it too. Fascinating and cringe-inducing at the same time, mostly thanks to The Cage and his over-acting. I didn't bother with this back in 2009, due to the reviews, but there are some fascinating ideas in there struggling to get out, and it managed to keep my attention despite the CGI. Spoilers ahead:Judgement Day wrote: »Knowing (2009) - RTE last night - on in the background last night as it starred Nicholas Cage. Daft plot, utterly depressing and two hours of my life that I won't see again although, as I said, I only had it on in the background.
There were some heavy nods to Arthur C. Clarke in the story line, such as the idea of the Rescue Party of aliens, and their focus on the children is straight out of Childhood's End.
The whole business with the numbers is confusing, possibly full of holes - since only children are receptive to them, but only adults are sufficiently knowledgeable about real-world events to interpret them properly. I thought it might mean that the aliens knew that children would need the support of adults to get to the pick-up points, but that's not true: the two kids we followed were picked up by the Whisperers and transported there when the adults were distracted. The aliens didn't even need an adult to interpret the numbers at all - they knew what they were doing. So Koestler (Cage), racing around in his truck, made no difference whatsoever: the Earth was doomed, and the aliens were going to take the "receptive" kids regardless of anything the adults knew or did. Neither was there any need for the kids to start writing numbers, either - I'd call that accidental, like a leak of information.
That's how it looks to me, anyway: a good central idea involving the kids, surrounded by lots of adults running around and screaming. One possible flaw in this idea: when Koestler got involved in the Subway crash, he apparently helped to save dozens of lives - and had he not done that, the numbers would have been wrong. Hmmmm ...
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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I watched it too. Fascinating and cringe-inducing at the same time, mostly thanks to The Cage and his over-acting. I didn't bother with this back in 2009, due to the reviews, but there are some fascinating ideas in there struggling to get out, and it managed to keep my attention despite the CGI. Spoilers ahead:
There were some heavy nods to Arthur C. Clarke in the story line, such as the idea of the Rescue Party of aliens, and their focus on the children is straight out of Childhood's End.
The whole business with the numbers is confusing, possibly full of holes - since only children are receptive to them, but only adults are sufficiently knowledgeable about real-world events to interpret them properly. I thought it might mean that the aliens knew that children would need the support of adults to get to the pick-up points, but that's not true: the two kids we followed were picked up by the Whisperers and transported there when the adults were distracted. The aliens didn't even need an adult to interpret the numbers at all - they knew what they were doing. So Koestler (Cage), racing around in his truck, made no difference whatsoever: the Earth was doomed, and the aliens were going to take the "receptive" kids regardless of anything the adults knew or did. Neither was there any need for the kids to start writing numbers, either - I'd call that accidental, like a leak of information.
That's how it looks to me, anyway: a good central idea involving the kids, surrounded by lots of adults running around and screaming. One possible flaw in this idea: when Koestler got involved in the Subway crash, he apparently helped to save dozens of lives - and had he not done that, the numbers would have been wrong. Hmmmm ...
I thought it was fascinating idea wrapped up in a terrible film. Both Nicolas Cage and suprisingly Rose Byrne were terrible and the two disasters were so over the top in their depiction they looked out of place. Enjoyable only in that it had a lot of unintentionally funny moments- the rabbits being saved but not the dad, cage telling his parents and sister to stay underground "in the sewers", and the whole nonsensical scrawlings on the door.Someone else said it was related to the Rapture idea but I didn't see that in it.0 -
Some of the IMDB reviews think it's propaganda for Scientology. Not sure why, but I think it has to do with the notion of aliens coming to take away the "righteous". I don't think they realise that Scientology itself has roots in "Golden Age" science fiction, so it's not surprising that similar themes come up. That was what L Ron Hubbard did for a living before he invented Scientology: he wrote (bad) science fiction, and was influenced by the pulp magazines of the day.Sudden Valley wrote: »Someone else said it was related to the Rapture idea but I didn't see that in it.
I'm still waiting for the long-planned film adaptation of Clarke's Childhood's End. The latest to take it on is Stop-Loss director Kimberly Pierce, but that was back in early 2008. If done right, it would not star Nicholas Cage, or John Cusack, or any of those "shouty" actors.
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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